Yeah, but you can still launch the clients without the battle net launcher.
Have you considered the possibility that Blizzard has decided that fairness in their games is finally more important then money?
Or do you think I am being naive?
This is great! Finally weâre going to get rid of the botters/gold farmers in classic! Except the software used to bott is completely different and already bannable and detectable by you guysâŚso this isnât really going to affect them just piss off players who have been using this stuff for years and you have refused to make a clear statement onâŚyet players can easily spot botts and gold farmers because we, you know, actually play the game. There not hard to spot, usually a hunter or mage with jumble of letters for a name and a pet with a Chinese name (as well as the items they link in chat being Chinese). Online 24 hrs a day, only logging for 30 min every 8 hours for I assume bott runner rotation, (reporting for account sharing seems to have a quicker response than botting) in the same area or running the same dungeon all day long. The gold farmers on Pagle wonât even deny it when asked and they act almost proud of the fact they are getting away with it. So whats the plan for next quarter when the numbers donât change lock the game to only running one game instance like SWTOR does?
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Yes, you are correct. There are two groups of people in play here:
- Multiboxers, the set of all players using software to coordinate multiple accounts, so one person can play several characters at the same time while still following the âone keystroke per actionâ rule
- Cheaters, the subset of multiboxers who use multiboxing software as part of a botting suite, to automate gameplay, usually to farm resources
Blizzard fired this shot at the second group, and obliterated them both.
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As well you should - reporting automation is good. But- YOU are the one doing the policing in that context.
You do realize that you can use a KVM? To get around it.
Itâs a hardware not a software solution.
It boils down to a emotional response I feel like.
I only report people when they call me a racial slur but I still see them in game so eh.
Love that Iâve been calling this approach for a while (The Keystroke mirroring ban) since you know - I canât bind 4 OCDâs to one macro without it âruining the game experienceâ, and got mobbed for it every time.
Feels like sweet revenge. Anyways, at least youâre gonna be saving a couple hundred bucks a month.
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Really eager for a forum vacation I see.
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Wouldnât it be more like youâre responsible for one characters movements and the software youâre using is responsible for the rest of them
If I open up 2 WoW clients right now on 2 accounts and hold W on 1 only one of my toons will more
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This is the Todd Howard approach he used in Fallout 76âŚdidnât end well there either
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That post was just to that particular person about math, nothing more.
Anyway, I think you are, sort of. There are many ways that multiboxers are playing without using this software. Blizzard is being lazy, not treating the root of a problem.
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To me itâs not fair, and this is my reason why;
Because the adventure is meant to be about you, in an individual character going out into the world and making your contribution to fighting the enemies of Azeroth, thatâs the story and thatâs the adventure.
In real life you donât get to clone yourself and make double money, so you shouldnât in wow.
Simply put, multiboxing wrecks the fantasy and immersion of the game, therefore is not fair.
It is a crime against fantasy.
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Finally a good change to see, iâve been getting tired of hearing people defend using a third party software to achieve an advantage.
When playing WoW it should have always been a 1:1 with input, you click 1, only one character does an action.
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Not as big as you might think though, My money is this is also because this is a simpler solution than having to try put localization restrictions on Argentinian accounts. which most multiboxers probably use for cheaper subs.
To be blunt. I constantly begged in GD for something akin to personal resource nodes, which would have broken multibottingâs advantage in resource gathering. Every single time, a swarm of multibot apologists would attack the idea, because their single driving purpose was to maintain the absolutely unfair advantage that multibotting provided.
Iâm glad itâs gone, and I hope Blizzard sticks to their guns on this. Shadowlands could be a total dumpster fire at this point, and itâs the best expansion EVER, because it looks like multibotting and run of the mill botting might actuall get addressed. My favorite part of the game is the economy side of it, and thatâs hard to enjoy when material prices are being dropped below the point a non-multibot could be bothered to gather.
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Nah, Iâm just the bloke who proverbially called 911 before the cops shoot their dog.
Yeah, where are all of the white knights now? All of the people who spammed âBuT ItâS NoT aGaInSt ThE ToSâ?
Sweet revenge does feel good.
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